Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University, where he teaches about the French New Wave filmmakers. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band. Stam has published widely on French literature, comparative literature, and on film topics such as film history and film theory. This article is a general introduction to French literature For detailed information on French literature in specific historic periods see the separate historical articles in the Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated "Comp lit" is critical scholarship dealing with the Literature of two or more different Linguistic Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to Reality, the other Arts individual